{"value"=>"<p>This subseries, which is arranged chronologically, consists of Cockran's correspondence with Democratic Party officials, congressional colleagues, governmental officials and constituents, regarding various matters including pending legislation, the Volstead Act, the tariff question, bi-metalism, the presidential election of 1896, and the nomination of Cockran as speaker of the House of Representatives. Included are letters from William Jennings Bryan (12/8/04), Stuyvesant Fish (5/10/06; 5/16/06), William McAdoo (6/25/06), Louis F. Post (5/18/88), Theodore Roosevelt (6/6/07; 2/29/08), Elihu Root (3/19/08), Alfred E. Smith (1/23/23), W. T. Stead (5/23/06); William Howard Taft (9/2/05), and John S. Williams (3/2/04; 12/17/04; 6/22/04).</p>"}